Russian Federation says Syria downs most of the missiles

Kelvin Horton

The Syrian government condemned the targeted overnight airstrikes by the United States, France and Britain. "Without the authorization of the United Nations Security Council, in defiance of the UN Charter, norms and principles and global law, an act of aggression has been committed against a sovereign state, which is at the forefront of the war on terror", the Kremlin press service quotes Putin as saying.

Speaking at the United Nations on Thursday, Russia's U.N. ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, said the top priority had to be to avert a wider war, and he didn't rule out the possibility of a U.S. -Russia conflict. And his counterpart, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, insisted that USA officials were in touch with their Russian counterparts over the so-called "deconfliction channel" between the U.S. al-Udeid airbase in Qatar and Russia's Hmeymim military base in Syria.

"To Iran and to Russian Federation, I ask, what kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women and children?" But the Pentagon said on Saturday that worry had been eased by the fact that there were no Russian casualties as a result of Friday's military campaign.

"President Putin and his government promised the world that they would guarantee the elimination of Syria's chemical weapons", he added.

"Russia must decide if it will continue down this dark path or if it will join with civilised nations as a force for stability and peace". Syrian TV showed video of the rubble of one target which appeared to have been destroyed by a missile strike.

"Again, we are being threatened". Syria and its ally Russia have denied such an attack took place, and Moscow has accused Britain of helping to stage the Douma incident to stoke anti-Russian hysteria. "Insulting the President of Russian Federation is unacceptable and inadmissible", he added, an apparent reference to Trump's mention of President Vladimir Putin in his speech. "The U.S. ― the possessor of the biggest arsenal of chemical weapons ― has no moral right to blame other countries".

One major concern the United States had was that the Syria strikes would prompt a direct confrontation between Washington and Moscow, whose relations have been spiraling downward. "The capital of a sovereign government, trying for years to survive under terrorist aggression, has been attacked", Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Facebook.

But the Pentagon said that worry had eased after the U.S. learned that the Syria strikes had not resulted in any Russian casualties.

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